Katherine Gottlieb was the president and CEO of the

Southcentral Foundation Southcentral Foundation (SCF) is an Alaska Native health care organization established by Cook Inlet Region, Inc. (CIRI) in 1982 to improve the health and social conditions of Alaska Native and American Indian people, enhance culture, and empower i ...

, an

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Native Healthcare Organization.

Life

She graduated from

Alaska Pacific University Alaska Pacific University (APU) is a private university in Anchorage, Alaska. It was established as Alaska Methodist University in 1957. Although it was renamed to Alaska Pacific University in 1978, it is still affiliated with the United Method ...

with a Bachelor of Arts degree, a master's degree in business administration, and an honorary doctorate. Southcentral Foundation's Nuka system of health care grew from fewer than 100 employees to more than 2,000; and from an operating budget of about $3 million to $323 million. Funding for SCF is 45 percent from the

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, 50 percent from third party insurers or Medicaid, and the remaining 5 percent from foundation or grants. Gottlieb resigned from her position at SCF on August 3, 2020, two weeks after the organization fired three dentists, including her husband Kevin Gottlieb for falsifying health records.

Awards

* 2015 Baldrige Foundation Harry S. Hertz Leadership Award * 2013 National Indian Health Board Award * 2004

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

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1950s births Alaska Native people Alaska Pacific University alumni American health care chief executives American women chief executives Living people MacArthur Fellows People from Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska People from Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women {{US-CEO-stub